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New Frontier Advisors · 3 hours ago

Lead Quantitative Researcher

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$160K/yr - $210K/yr

5+ years exp

New Frontier Advisors is an investment technology firm that specializes in creating practical portfolio solutions through rigorous research. The Lead Quantitative Researcher will design and implement research to enhance portfolio construction and risk modeling, while also contributing to investment processes and communication efforts.

AdviceFinancial Services

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop research that strengthens portfolio construction, risk modeling, and asset allocation – especially under estimation uncertainty

Turn theory into practice: prototype and validate models on real market and ETF data

Advance multi-asset investing (equity, fixed income, alternative assets) with attention to long‑horizon, tax-aware, and retirement contexts

Contribute to capital‑market assumptions frameworks and robust estimation methods

Build and maintain research code, libraries, and experiment pipelines (Python, R, or MATLAB), emphasizing reproducibility, unit testing, and peer-review

Improve algorithms for optimization, statistical estimation, and signal stability

Partner with data engineering on dataset curation

Participate in Investment Committee discussions, frame trade-offs clearly with evidence, risk metrics, and client outcomes in mind

Translate research into portfolio guidelines, monitoring rules, and rebalancing/implementation

Co-author peer-reviewed and white papers, research notes, and practitioner pieces; present internally and at external forums

Qualification

PythonRMATLABPortfolio theoryStatistical modelingIntellectually curiousPragmaticFiduciary-mindedCommunicationTeam-oriented

Required

PhD (or ABD close to completion) in Finance, Economics, Financial Engineering, Applied Math, Statistics, or related field; exceptional master's candidates with strong publication or industry impact considered

5+ years of applied research or investment industry experience

Programming: Proficient in Python, R, or MATLAB

Quant toolkit: Portfolio theory and optimization, time‑series/statistical modeling, robust/Bayesian estimation, simulation/bootstrapping/Monte Carlo, and risk modeling

Domain fluency: Multi-asset and ETF analytics; after-tax and constraints-aware portfolio construction; transaction‑cost and rebalancing frameworks

Communication: Clear writer and presenter; able to explain complex quantitative ideas to both academics and practitioners

Mindset: Team-oriented, intellectually curious, pragmatic, and fiduciary-minded; you enjoy owning problems end‑to‑end

Preferred

Experience with household/goal-based optimization, retirement glide paths, liability-aware or draw-down-aware design

Exposure to factor/risk‑model integration, scenario design, and regime‑switching or macro-linked estimation

Familiarity with productionized research workflows

Publication record (peer-reviewed journals) or evidence of impactful practitioner research

Benefits

Health insurance

401(k)

Professional development support

Company

New Frontier Advisors

New Frontier is an institutional research and investment advisory firm specializing in the development of investment technology.

Founded in 1999

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.newfrontieradvisors.com

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